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JOSEPH SHIPE, OF UPPER AUGUSTA TO WNSHIP, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY,

PENNSYLVANIA.

CORN-SHELLER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 43,713, dated August 2, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SHIPE, of Upper Augusta township, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Machine for Shelling Corn; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construct-ion and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in providing corn shellers with a circular concave spout, in addition to the ordinary shelling devices, for the purpose of rendering the operation of shelling more perfect, and enabling fresh or undried corn to be shelled with greater facility, than can be done with the machines as ordinarily constructed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe it.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section of my machine, and Fig. 2, a top plan view, with the upper portion of the case removed, for the purpose of showing more clearly the construction of my invention.

Similar letters on the drawings refer to the same parts of the machine, wherever they occur in the different figures.

A, in both figures, represents the case of the machine. E is the hopper, G the shaft of the driving wheel B, and having-mount ed on it also the feed wheel B. F represents the shelling disk or wheel. These parts are all constructed and arranged in the ordinary manner, and therefore need not be more particularly described.

The special feature of my invention is the curved, concave spout G, which is made in the form shown in the drawings. This spout is located so as to face the shelling wheel or disk F, along its lower and rear portion, for about one-third of the circumference of said wheel, as shown in Fig. 1. This spout is provided on its back, near its front or larger end, with a projecting flange, terminating in rounded or conical points a, having a bearing in corresponding recesses in block J, secured to the inside of the easing, as shown in Fig. 2, by which means the larger end of spout G, is held securely in its place, while the smaller or opposite end rests loosely against the inner side of the end casing of the machine. This outer or smaller end of the spout G is pressed up toward the shelling wheel F, by the spring H, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the rounded points a, forming a fulcrum or bearing on which the spout G, oscillates, as indicated in red in Fig. 2. It is prevented from being raised out of position by the arm I, attached to the casing directly above it.

The operation of my improved machine is as follows: The ears of corn to be shelled are placed in the hopper in the usual manner, where they are seized by the revolving feed wheel B, which forces them forward and downward between the shelling wheel F, and the spring bar or arm K, which is provided with projections or teeth near its lower end in the usual manner, by which operation the ear is partially denuded of its kernels. It then passes down into the larger end of spout G, which holds the car up against the face of the shelling disk F, while the revolution of disk F at the same time forces the cob forward along the spout, finally ejecting it with considerable force through an opening in the case opposite the small end of spout G, as indicated in red, Figs. 1 and 2. By this means the ear is kept much longer in contact with the face of the shelling disk than is usual in machines constructed without my improvement, whereby every kernel is sure to be removed from the cob.

One great advantage arising from the use of my improvement is that by it I am enabled to thoroughly shell corn which may have been newly picked and therefore not thoroughly dried, or old corn, which has become damp by snow, rain or moisture of any kind coming in contact with it, as is more or less the case in nearly all cribs used by farmers for storing it. In the attempt to use ordinary machines in such cases, more or less of the corn remains adhering to the cob, and is thereby wasted and lost.

Having thus described my invention and its operation, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The spout Gr, when constructed and operating substantially as, and for the purpose herein set forth.

JOSEPH SHIPE.

Witnesses:

JOHN YOUNGMAN, T. G. GoorER. 

